This Week at Amtrak 2006-01-02
Monday, January 2nd, 2006Volume 3 Number 1
- Happy New Year to one and all. Thank you for taking time last year to read This Week at Amtrak, and thank you to those who sent their thoughts, suggestions, and comments. We all look forward to 2006 as a time of progress and change for Amtrak. Last year brought a welcome storm of debate about the future of Amtrak; the first lengthy dialogue heard from so many quarters since Amtrak came into being on May 1, 1971.Hopefully, the debate on the future of Amtrak and decisions made about the company and, indeed, the domestic transportation policy of the United States will focus primarily on Amtrak’s original mission of providing a reliable and robust national passenger railroad system, and not a series of disjointed regional corridors which have no national value.